The greatest minds are simple, -- and deep: little minds may also be
simple, -- and shallow. Well thought out, this remark of St Thomas
will explain the riddle how it comes to pass that, while the highest
being is simple and one, nevertheless in biological and political
science differentiation of organs marks the higher animal and the
more highly developed state. There is a poverty-stricken
simplicity: there is a clumsy multiplicity, a sort of boorish
wealth: there is also an artistic multiplicity, where every detail
is subordinate to one design. A cosmos is a matter of unity:
a chaos is 'a manifold.' The grandest and highest of beings
is a formal unity, actually one, virtually many and all.